Human worth - equal or hierarchical?

[Why Realism? from Larval Subjects by larvalsubjects
Take, for example, the contemporary debate over evolution. The religious skeptic might concede the correlationist argument, claiming that at the level of phenomena or how things appear for-us, evolution is the only plausible conclusion. Nonetheless– and here I’m indebted to Meillassoux’s analysis in After Finitude –the religious skeptic can still point out that this knowledge is restricted to appearances, and that the level of things-in-themselves the world could be organized in a completely different way, along creationist lines. “Since we cannot know things-in-themselves,” the religious skeptic reasons, “there is no reason to conclude that things are as they appear.” Consequently, the correlationist move still leaves open wiggle room for faith trumping what our experimental investigation of nature tells us. 1:20 PM]

[By linking inherent rights to God, Wolterstorff is confronting widespread skepticism about theistic groundings of justice... A theory of the goods to which we have rights requires an underlying idea of a person’s fundamental worth.
That conclusion, of course, raises yet another question: how do we account for human worth as a basis for inherent natural rights? Wolterstorff’s answer is especially provocative. After assessing arguments from Kant to Gewirth, he concludes that no existing secular reasons provide an adequate account, but a theistic argument does. Rights inhere in our equal worth as God’s beloved, regardless of our capacities or choices. The Immanent Frame
Justice: Justice and rights-talk in liberal democracies posted by Kevin den Dulk 10:53 AM]

[The earliest preoccupation of man in his awakened thoughts and, as it seems, his inevitable and ultimate preoccupation, - for it survives the longest periods of scepticism and returns after every banishment, - is also the highest which his thought can evisage... The earliest formula of Wisdom promises to be its last, - God, Light, Freedom, Immortality. -Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine]

Sri Aurobindo would go further, integrating appearances and reality, but his account of the worth of humans and their rights will be more practical and hierarchical. [TNM]